RESPONSIBILITIES
Assessment/Study Plan design:
• Assess students academic ability, English ability and general ambitions.
• Evaluate their personality and hobbies.
• Speak to parents to get a full picture on the child, their long-term aims for their child, and their general study abroad plan.
• Ultimately learn to choose suitable target schools to meet parents’ expectations and child’s ability.
• Create a study plan to help students achieve their targets.

Client Management:
• Guide and motivate students to keep them on track for their study plans.
• Organise short-term tuition in UK/China based on requirements you have for them and outline for tutors.
• Continually check and track progress of students via communication with schools/tutors, and adjust study plan as necessary.
• Keep in touch with students even when they are overseas just to insure their continued progress.
• Help students write up personal statements
• Check students’ progress by monitoring their work – provide feedback and adjust tuition if needed.

Communication with Parents:
• Inform parents of their children's progress
• Explain your suggestions/study plans to parents
• Understand and manage parentss expectations
• Help manage parents' concerns/ requirements/issues once child is abroad.
• Keep parents aware of any worries/concerns you may have and keep them generally happy.

Communication with Schools:
• Keep in touch with schools' overseas to track students' progress and keep an eye on issues
• Request regular reports from the schools/guardians
• Request additional support and help whenever needed from schools
• Build up relationships with schools – this helps in the long-run for SA and all premium clients.
• Try to build up exclusive relationships with schools

Accompaniment:
• Often we accompany students/parents to the UK for interviews/tests or simply for school selection purposes.
• For students the idea is to keep them focused, positive and well-trained up for interviews – we do practice sessions in-between visits.
• For parents we largely do translations and provide help in terms of understanding how the schools work, their advantages/disadvantages etc…

Marketing Activities:
• Delivering presentations on various topics for potential clients.
• Writing articles about schools, issues faced by clients/students etc… for our schools guide and website.
• Writing up success stories of students
• Represent the company at events/dinners/galas we are invited to attend.

Other:
• Provide tuition to students. This is often only initially when workload is quite light and time needs filling.
• Provide training for new consultants (normally 2x a year) on certain aspects of study abroad.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS
A successful candidate:
• Strong spoken Chinese. Meaning – ability to speak to clients in Chinese, and confidently do